when will the "experiment" end.. ?? time for the american to ply his trade on some lower level matches where he will receive less criticism.. he has potential if the goal is the usa voice for the world cup.. but stop insulting football fans and having this twit do the best matches in the champions league, fa cup and premier league.. he is HORRIBLE... but you are losing more and more.. check out twitter.. people are not happy..

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I was willing to give Gus a chance but I agree that it's incredibly stupid to use him for all the big games. They could easily have him call games like QPR v Man Utd from yesterday or Wigan v Liverpool next weekend. Big enough but not the marquee matchup of the weekend. Stick him on Dortmund v Shaktar. He would get experience without pissing everyone off just the people watching the secondary matchup.

It is really really funny that you think that your position on this is anything but the extreme extreme minority that any television executive should lose his job if he even thinks about giving it credibility.

And I managed not to see or hear any advertisement for it during the match, the #GB4R bug not-withstanding.

Most American sports broadcasts advertise upcoming events on their network, deal with it.

Thx,

Jay!

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Its the degree to which they are hyping the Daytona thats annoying.

The advertising has swamped their EPL telecasts this weekend. All for an event that isnt THAT big. I mean every weekend there is something like this. In fact not even the biggest Tv event of the day in this country

Yeah but the advertising has swamped their EPL telecasts this weekend.

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Like I said, outside of the FOX bug having the hashtag, I didn't notice Gus Johnson mention it one time at all during the MCFC-CFC match.

That could be because I tuned him out, or it could be because he didn't mention it. At any rate, the telecast of the match wasn't interrupted much the way an NFL, MLB or other sports broadcast has the announcer read promos during a lull in the action, or when they come back from a commercial. Halftime? Don't watch because they spoil results of other games.

Like I said, outside of the FOX bug having the hashtag, I didn't notice Gus Johnson mention it one time at all during the MCFC-CFC match.

That could be because I tuned him out, or it could be because he didn't mention it. At any rate, the telecast of the match wasn't interrupted much the way an NFL, MLB or other sports broadcast has the announcer read promos during a lull in the action, or when they come back from a commercial. Halftime? Don't watch because they spoil results of other games.

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Jay!

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What is up with showing highlights of the Newcastle game before they show the Newcastle game?

This isn't specifically against Gus Johnson, but I really wish there was a button on the broadcast that could mute the commentary and just give me crowd noise. The player for MLB.tv has this option and it's pretty great.

I wonder at what point in his budding soccer career he'll mention how Cristiano Ronaldo has "get away from the cops speed"?

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This may seem counter intuitive, but looks to me like Johnson is more capable as a soccer announcer than a pigskin announcer. That touchdown call is the epitome of NFL narration gone bad. That "dumb jock" persona hasn't materialized on Fox Soccer so far, thankfully.

This may seem counter intuitive, but looks to me like Johnson is more capable as a soccer announcer than a pigskin announcer..

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He must be pretty clueless about American football then. Doesn't even understand soccer. When Mata was standing in an offside position and the ball was fed to him, Mata obviously didn't go for it because he knew the flag would go up. But to Johnson this was bizarre and he said something to the effect that Mata didn't see the ball. lol

Okay, I admit I'm bored. I actually wrote down some actual play-by-play from Johnson today. He should be the announcer on Playstation FIFA '14 because it would be so easy for the software developers to mimic an announcer whose average sentence is 1.4 words. Even I could program this:

This isn't specifically against Gus Johnson, but I really wish there was a button on the broadcast that could mute the commentary and just give me crowd noise. The player for MLB.tv has this option and it's pretty great.

I have eyes. I can already see what's going on.

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If you have surround sound, fiddle with the options. My system had an option where I can sit beside the rear side speakers and barely hear the commentary coming from the center speakers.

Failing that, FOX Deportes had the British guys (Martin Tyler?) on SAP.

Failing that, FOX Deportes had the British guys (Martin Tyler?) on SAP.

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Peter Drury & Jim Beglin called City/Chelsea yesterday on the international feed which could be accessed on FOX Deportes by turning on the SAP option on the cable box. Martin Tyler & Gary Neville called the game on Sky Sports.

From what I've noticed the English Commentary doesn't feed on the SAP option on replays of games. It does work during live games. Apparently there are some carriers that don't offer the SAP option. It does work with my carrier which is Brighthouse.